Also, we can always start playing this
White to move: 1. L6!? (I had L4, but you can play 4 squares in the opening I think)
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White: Maróczy
Black: Capablanca
0-1 in 93 moves, although this pic is from move 58, can’t find the final position
Interesting that all but 1 bishop is gone, bishop worth way more than knight in this variant I imagine
Hurts my head to look at that.
I don’t think a computer would ever solve this in our lifetimes, certainly no classical computer, and if that’s wrong and I’m just pulling that out of me arse, just double the board and pieces again.
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I like how the site tells me “Nice win! You were never in trouble.” When I had 1 second left to his 2 minutes. … forgot how satisfying scramble wins feel.
You know you’ve done a lot of chezz puzzles when you don’t even need to scroll down all the way to see it’s the king walk mate game.
Fun watch here, this is Jan Gustaffson playing someone he thinks is a GM friend of his but secretly Magnus Carlsen is playing on his account. It’s amusing to watch as Jan gets increasingly bewildered as he gets smashed by Carlsen blitzing out sick moves.
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I’ve linked him a few times before, Jan Gustaffson is a chess treasure. I witched him and Svidler do the coverage for the last candidates on chess24, excellent. Kramnik was getting into all of these losing/lost positions and claiming chances, they were loling hard.
Why do they call Anish Giri the artist?
RadioJan: Because he always draws.
Omg I posted the wrong position a few moves in. Try to edit that and forget it existed as it gives away one of the crazier moves.
k, I was able to delete my post
Attention Unstuck, did I just vanquish Olivier Busquet for our holy honor in a completely random chess.com 3 minute blitz game? Not a perfect game, 12. Nxg5?? is intentional but bad, and I missed the queen fork at 14. Nd5?? but otherwise mostly ok.
This is the profile
I have a Borgata Open 1k sighting of an Olivier Busquet from Edgewater, NJ, so like yeah? I mean it’s a brag but not a brag, my in shape ELO is ~150 points higher, bring on Allen Cunningham I guess?
I have no idea who that guy is, but he can suck it imo.
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He was/is an online heads up sng superwizard turned MMA from time to time figher, did/does a lot of poker commentary, ~10 million in tournament cashes
Don’t resign and try to stalemate swindle Unstuck? Get mated in a sort of humiliating fashion. Black to move, mate in 3 (multiple solutions but mine has the most flex)
- … Kc3
- Ka3 c1=B+
- Ka4 Bb3#
Sort of humiliating in that the under promotion to B+ mates the same way as Q+.
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i did …Ra1 but …Bb3 has sex appeal
or under promote to a knight to really fuck with them
- … Kc3
- Ka3 c1=N
- Ka4 Ne2
- Ka3 Nd4
- Ka4 Bb3+
- Ka3 Nc2++
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Also, hit my peak blitz rating on lichess today. 1967.
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chris have you noticed anything about the relative strength/rating of players on lichess since they changed to stop giving so many points for wins (4-6 months ago now I think?). It used to be you could get at many as 15 points for a win, and ~equal rating wins gave about 10 (now I don’t even think it gives 8 all the time?). One of the main reasons I split my time on chess .com and lichess was that you can gain rating faster on lichess, and with the elo seeming to be +150 higher than on chess .com and I could flirt with the 2k rating. Don’t recall, I think my peak on my old account was either 1956 or 1978, probably the former. With an incredible amount of run good I got to 1928 on chess .com but 1900+ on chess com feels like 2k+ at least on lichess.